Angelika Kauffmann

Description

Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807) is regarded as the first woman artist of European standing. Well educated and very well connected, she enjoyed an international reputation. She pursued a brilliant career and was one of the outstanding artist personalities of the Classical Age in Londonand Rome. She was admired by Goethe and Herder and her clients included queens and emperors from across the continent. Angelika Kauffmann describes the Kauffmann myth, which arose evenduring her lifetime. Her remarkable life and work are presented in some100 of her best paintings and drawings, including many new discoveries. This overview volume focuses on Kauffmann's impact in England, especially as the first female member of the Royal Academy of Arts, as well as her work as a pioneering history painter, fashionable portraitist and champion of a new ideal of masculinity.

Bettina Baumgartel is a German art historian who is head of the painting collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf. She is a leading authority on the art of Angelica Kauffman and founded the Angelika Kauffmann Research Project, of which she is the director, in 1990.

"Accompanying the 2020 exhibition by the same title, this beautiful catalogue provides a lively account of Kauffman's life and career and of the central role she played in the European art world of the 18th century. . . Highly recommended." * Choice * "This is a polished and thoroughly explained scholarly look at a neglected artist, so it deserves a spot on library shelves." * Pennsylvania Literary Journal * "The publication consists of four short introductory essays, followed by eighty-one catalogue entries accompanied by 144 color illustrations... it provides a good introduction to Angelica Kauffman with a well-chosen range of paintings and drawings and high quality illustrations." * Woman's Art Journal *